Fri, Mar 05, 2010 | 18:09 GMT
Portal 2 revealed as cover of next Game Informer [Update]
Update: Valve’s just formally announced it on Steam, saying the game’s releasing “coming holiday season”.
Original Story: Portal 2 is now official: it’s the cover star of the next issue of Game Informer.
We’re making a note here: huge success
The sequel to the Valve puzzler has been hinted at all this week, from
mysterious updates for the original to ARG games which have revealed the sequel’s first art.
No concrete details were given on what the game will be like, although the cover hints at a return to an Aperture Science lab, which has been taken a turn for the worst since the first game.
It’s possible the first trailer could be shown at GDC next week when Valve boss Gabe Newell gets his pioneer award.
No date yet for it – nor confirmation of platforms – but if we had to guess, expect it on PC, 360 and PS3 like the original.
27 comments
#1
Patrick Garratt
05/03/10, 5:45 pm
babababooooooooooooooooooom
#2
DarkElfa
05/03/10, 5:50 pm
ditto Pat
#3
AHA-Lambda
05/03/10, 5:52 pm
OMFG!!! I knew it was coming and I still creamed myself
#4
Mr Tom
05/03/10, 5:53 pm
The sequel is not a lie etc etc.
(Woo!)
#5
Pysk
05/03/10, 5:53 pm
Jungle setting, what?
#6
Johnny Cullen
05/03/10, 5:55 pm
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeheheijsdnma\akdcANAKISDHojojaokcmKLVLKNASOLP;m\lvomap[;v
#7
ryn.x
05/03/10, 5:59 pm
Awesome-sauce of the highest quality.
#8
Dr.Ghettoblaster
05/03/10, 5:59 pm
Bloody awesome.
#9
Phoenixblight
05/03/10, 6:01 pm
Now this is some exciting news.
#10
theevilaires
05/03/10, 6:02 pm
Dr.Ghettoblaster said: Bloody awesome.
What are you a euro now
…Bloody awesome 
#11
dirigiblebill
05/03/10, 6:08 pm
This has me torn. On the one hand I can’t think of a game less in need of a sequel. On the other, OMFG.
#12
Patrick Garratt
05/03/10, 6:10 pm
Update. It’s out this holiday.
#13
Syrok
05/03/10, 6:10 pm
Easter?
#14
ryn.x
05/03/10, 6:14 pm
St. Patrick’s day? That counts as a holiday right? Yes?
#15
Psychotext
05/03/10, 6:16 pm
Hugely excited. One of the games of this generation.
I’m making a note here, huge success.
#16
Peter D
05/03/10, 6:16 pm
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Notice the underlined characters in the press release? Another valve puzzle?
#17
Mike
05/03/10, 6:22 pm
The underlined letters in the Steam news announcement are drattmannh0nee
#18
AHA-Lambda
05/03/10, 6:33 pm
to anagram websites!!!
#19
The Hindle
05/03/10, 6:52 pm
I called it people. Looks like we are getting this instead of Half Life 3 or Episode 3.
#20
Psychotext
05/03/10, 7:54 pm
Apparently it’s going to have co-op.
\o/
#21
The Hindle
05/03/10, 8:16 pm
Where you hear that PT? Have the scans leaked already.
Nevermind just read it.
#22
Bulk Slash
05/03/10, 9:21 pm
Loved the first one, bit tired of the cake jokes now, though. Hopefully there will be some new things that can become internet memes before being overused.
I don’t know what they can do to make the gameplay as original and clever as the first. Maybe the co-op angle suggests the SP mode will have multiple characters you can switch between? Each character could have their own portal gun that can only create one portal, so you have to work in tandem to move through a level…
#23
Johnny Cullen
05/03/10, 9:31 pm
Fling yourself.
F-F-F-F-Fling yourself.
WeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeafaifnakfnakcfnVV]#
AFADgasgfzsgsafDsksBksKSkdbJDdncl la\jfcOLCD
#24
MushroomStamp
05/03/10, 9:50 pm
ummmm which holiday season? Memorial? Labor? 4th July? Fathers day?
#25
Blerk
05/03/10, 11:22 pm
Good, good. I hope it’s more of a full game than a bite-size novelty this time around, though.
#26
Freek
06/03/10, 10:54 am
Now that they have anounced this they have E3 to finally show people Episode 3. I mean what else would they do? They can’t keep on putting that game off.
#27
Gekidami
06/03/10, 10:56 am
Then can if they’re making other stuff instead of it… Like Portal 2.